Duncan Freeman at LaborPress reports high-ranking Fire Protection Inspectors at the FDNY are conducting after-hours inspections without being properly compensated because of cuts to the Department’s overtime budget, leaders of the Union representing the Inspectors said.  The Inspectors typically conduct their checks of subway tunnels, the City’s bridges and certain businesses late at night, while on overtime, so as to not create traffic or delays.  But the FDNY, Union Leaders said, has drastically lowered the overtime cap for many level-two and level-three Fire Protection Inspectors - Captains and Deputy Chief Inspectors - who supervise these inspections, in order to comply with city-wide budget cuts imposed last year.  But Inspectors who’ve eclipsed their overtime cap are working after-hours anyway and are either tracking the overtime they work on paper in the hopes of being compensated later or working on compensatory time that allows them to cash in their hours later in the year for extra sick or vacation time, according to the Unions.   Mike Reardon, a Deputy Chief Fire Inspector and Vice President of District Council 37’s Local 2507, which represents Fire Inspectors and EMS Workers at the FDNY, said that this was the first time in his more than 40 years of service that Inspectors were not being fully compensated.

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